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La Malinche - A Complicated Woman in Context
La Malinche, or Malintzin, was the primary interpreter in the retinue of Hernán Cortés during his conquest of Mexico in the early 16th century and has become one of the most divisive women in Mexican history. Though she was called Malintzin...
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La Malinche Mediates with the Tlaxcallans
La Malinche mediates discussions between Tlaxcallans and Hernán Cortés, mural by Desiderio Hernández Xochitiotzin, photograph by Wolfgang Sauber, Tlaxcala, 28 March, 2008. The Tlaxcallans are an indigenous Nahua people from central Mexico...
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La Malinche and Hernán Cortés
La Malinche speaking with Hernán Cortés, book illustration in Diego Durán's Historia de las Indias de Nueva España e islas de la tierra firme, p. 207, 1579. This illustration is included in a large manuscript about the history of Spain's...
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La Malinche Leads the Spanish
La Malinche leading Hernán Cortés and the Spanish, illustration in Codex Azcatitlan by unknown author, p. 23, c. 1501-1600. This image is an indigenous pictorial representation of the Spanish marching on the Aztec capital with La Malinche...
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La Malinche of Villa Oluta
La Malinche statue with the coat of arms of Oluta, sculputure by the Municipal Council of Oluta, photograph by Isaac Vásquez (Isaacvp), Oluta, Mexico, 27 February, 2022. This statue depicts La Malinche, a controversial figure in the history...
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Doña Marina, La Malinche
Doña Marina (La Malinche), book illustration included in The Mastering of Mexico by Kate Stephens, p. 65, 1916. La Malinche, Malintzin, or Doña Marina, was a key figure in the fall of the Aztec Empire and the absorption of Mexico into New...
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Hernán Cortés
Hernán Cortés (1485-1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led the conquest of the Aztec Empire in Mexico from 1519. Taking the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan in 1521, Cortés plundered Mesoamerica as he became the first ruler of the new colony...
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Aztec Art
The Aztec culture, centred at the capital of Tenochtitlan, dominated most of Mesoamerica in the 15th-16th centuries. With military conquest and trade expansion, the art of the Aztecs also spread, helping the Aztec civilization achieve a cultural...
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The Conquest of New Spain
The Conquest of New Spain by Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492 to c. 1580) is an account written in 1568 of the early Spanish colonization of Mesoamerica, specifically the conquest of the Aztec civilization in Mexico from 1519 to 1521 when Díaz...
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Cortés & the Fall of the Aztec Empire
The Aztec empire flourished between c. 1345 and 1521 CE and dominated ancient Mesoamerica. This young and warlike nation was highly successful in spreading its reach and gaining fabulous wealth, but then all too quickly came the strange visitors...
